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This isn't universal. The New York Times Manual of Style, for instance, only permits using an en dash as a minus sign. Joining nouns like Sarbanes-Oxley and even number ranges use …

Calling the American Revolution terrorism, in the modern sense, is a stretch. It was a war waged primarily between soldiers and materiel with the goal of ending the enemy's ability…

That seems easy enough to solve. Simply record the index and length in pi of the index and length in pi.

My eyes glaze over any time an article uses the term "heavy metals" unironically. This could be bad or it could not, but I simply can't take anything seriously that uses ambiguous …

Pretty sure I've seen exposure-adjusted incidence rates used in clinical trials. Miles is simply a proxy for exposure. Given risk here does vary by exposure time and trip length va…

That depends entirely on where you are. In India, for instance, dairy cattle are fed almost exclusively on crop residues and by-products. Crop residues being what's left over in th…

Withdrawal of US troops from the region and acceptance of uranium enrichment appears nowhere in the other 10 points. There are permanent US bases in the region.

Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency (via China's state news agency Xinhua[0]) claims the 10 points are: 1. U.S. commitment to ensure no further acts of aggression 2. Continued Ir…

To manipulate the price of oil.

> It’s a bizarre situation in that US elections have such a huge impact on a world that has no say No say (or at least, no influence) might be a bit strong given foreign election i…

I'd love for them to target their own code base considering we keep seeing security vulnerabilities in claude code. How likely is it that they're not using their latest and greates…

Yes, you are correct. Bad editing on my part. It should be that if tcp_now gets stuck before ( =) (2^32 - 30000), it would cause them to potentially be reaped faster they should be…

Might want to update it if you used the blog post explanation because it's incorrect as justinfrankel noted below. From the post: tcp_now = 4,294,960,000 (frozen at pre-overflow va…

There does appear to be a bug, but it's not what the blog describes. If tcp_now stops updating at This does look like it is possible since calculate_tcp_clock() which updates tcp_n…

It definitely exists, but it could be a completely unrelated issue. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250867747

Interesting. The article mentions complaints on the forums running Catalina, so that must be something else.

You want to drop the wc -l. Mac `grep -c` counts lines that match, so it always prints 1 line, so piping to wc -l will always return 1. Or just open up and do netstat -an |grep TCP…

According to the post: $ netstat -an | grep -c TIME_WAIT If the count it returns keeps growing, you're seeing a slow leak. At some point, new connections will start failing. How so…

This only works if the web page knows the random per-install id associated with an extension. That can only happen if the extension itself leaks it to the web page and if that happ…

The copyright office has indicated that AI generated elements lacking human contributions to the expression (rather than input) would still not be copyrightable even if some human …

The award is damages which would be minimal in most cases.

Given trade secrets can't be enforced once they are made public and contracts don't bind anyone who hasn't signed them, it's not a great substitute for copyright. My guess is compa…

This article seems to imply that 800V DC is high-voltage DC, but that seems quite low.